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BobsYourUncle

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3. Color as smooth as silk.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Nov 1, 2025, 06:43 AM

Nov 1

I think that flowering plants, especially those with colors in the reds through yellows, do some supernatural things with afternoon sunlight, and especially this time of year. Maybe the leaves are solar panels that collect the afternoon photons and transmit that energy to leds in the flowers. Isn’t a phosphorus atom just like an led? Sometime I’ll have to ask one of my coreopsis or one of the feather celosia.

The secret must be the phosphorus. No?

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Not my photo but I love colours in nature: [View all] applegrove Nov 1 OP

NICE! So do I! Too windy Thur/Fri to get out. elleng Nov 1 #1

That's probably my favorite color of Rose JMCKUSICK Nov 1 #2

Color as smooth as silk. BobsYourUncle Nov 1 #3

I know nothing of gardening except how to prune a rose bush. applegrove Nov 1 #4